Methuen Publishing Ltd is an English "publishing house. It was founded in 1889 by Sir "Algernon Methuen (1856–1924) and began publishing in London in 1892. Initially Methuen mainly published non-fiction academic works, eventually diversifying to encourage female authors and later translated works.[1] "E. V. Lucas headed the firm from 1924 to 1928.

In 1910 the business was converted into a limited liability company with "E. V. Lucas and G.E. Webster joining the founder on the board of directors.[4] The company published the 1920 English translation of Albert Einstein’s Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition.

Following the publication of Lawrence's "The Rainbow (1915), the British Director of Public prosecuted Methuen for obscenity. The firm offered no defence and agreed to destroy the remaining stock of 1,011 copies.[3] It is thought that one reason for the firm’s failure to support Lawrence was that he had at the time written an unkind portrait of the chief editor’s brother, who had recently been killed in France.[5]

Methuen was the English publisher of the book editions of "The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic "Belgian comic-strip books, written and illustrated by "Hergé. Methuen altered their "editions of Tintin by insisting that books featuring British characters undergo major changes. "The Black Island, first published in French in 1937, was set in Great Britain, but, prior to publishing it themselves in 1966, Methuen decided that it did not reflect the U.K. accurately enough and sent a list of 131 "errors" to be corrected.[6] It was thus redrawn and reset in the 1960s. Critics have attacked Methuen over the changes, claiming that Black Island lost a lot of its charm as a result.[6]"Land of Black Gold had had a troubled publishing history, but the completed adventure eventually appeared in 1948–50. It was set in the "British Mandate of Palestine and featured the conflict between Jews, Arabs and British troops. When Methuen was translating the Adventures of Tintin into English, "Israel had long since been in existence, and Methuen asked for it to be edited. Hergé took the opportunity to redraw the few problematic pages, as well as the pages before that: the freighter that appeared before that was based on Hergé's imagination, due to lack of resources at the time. The earlier version, published in 1950, was reprinted by "Casterman as a facsimile edition, but internationally was completely replaced by the newer version.